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The Land of Stories series meets Dominican history folklore in this debut middle grade contemporary fantasy novel.Everything in twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta ?Purp? Ramirezs world is changing and Pilar doesnt care for it not one bit. Her Logan Square neighborhood is gentrifying her responsibilities at home seem to have doubled since her sister Lorena moved down toThe Land of Stories series meets Dominican history folklore in this debut middle grade contemporary fantasy novel.Everything in twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta ?Purp? Ramirezs world is changing and Pilar doesnt care for it not one bit. Her Logan Square neighborhood is gentrifying her responsibilities at home seem to have doubled since her sister Lorena moved down to the University of Chicago and to top it all off? Her best friend Celeste just moved to Milwaukee right before they were going to make ?Purp? catch on as a nickname at school. In fact it seems like the only thing that isnt changing is Abuela and Mamis code of silence around her cousin Natasha?who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years before Pilar was born?and their lives under the Trujillo regime.So when Pilar a budding filmmaker gets word that theres a new professor at U. Chicago who studies disappearances under the Trujillato shes off on the train immediately. Only when she arrives the professor is nowhere to be found. While looking around the papers stacked in his office Pilar finds a folder with her cousins name on it. When she opens it all thats inside is a single blank sheet of paper. Then she literally falls into it.Pilar finds herself on Zafa?an island of Dominican myths and magic; where a girl matching Natashas description is imprisoned alongside many others. Aided by Carmen?a mysterious girl?and four magical sisters Pilar will have to face the Dominican boogeyman and his many minions if she has any hope of freeing Natasha and getting back home.(less)

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